Yesterday, The Ataris announced that they are going to embark on the “You Call All the Shots” tour in November and December with Teenage Kicks. This time, they have announced that they have about 20 songs recorded and 30 written for their forever-awaited new album The Graveyard of the Atlantic, which they plan to finish recording after the tour:

“Recording after the tour finishes. Have around 20 tunes recorded so far and another 30 or so written. That’s the plan.”

The Ataris have not released an album since 2007’s Welcome the Night. Earlier this year, they reunited the So Long, Astoria lineup for a tour.

I met these guys around a year before “So Long. ..” came out. I waited on them at Chili’s and Kris noticed i had a Nofx sticker on my waiter book.. I had no idea who they were before they introduced themselves. I told them i had heard of them but hadn’t heard a lot of their stuff. They were my last table of the night and we walked out together. Kris told me to hold up. He went to the tour trailer and came back with a stack of merchandise and gave it to me, He couldn’t find the cd’s they sold so he gave me his personal copies. I guess what im trying to say is you hear about him being a prick. But when I met him he was cool as hell and fun to talk to. He didn’t have to.give me that merchandise, but he did. Forever a fan of The Ataris

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